Jennifer's Body

Jennifer's Body

When Michael Bay’s “Transformers” hit the theatres worldwide back in  2007 they became a smash hit for two reasons: 1) awesome giant robots  and scenes of mass destruction, and 2) Megan Fox. Megan instantly became  the next “hottest woman alive”. When the horror “Jennifer’s Body” was  announced with Megan Fox taking the lead role I was quite surprised at  the blatant attempt of megansploitation. Not that I had anything against  it.

My expectations were fairly low and all I wanted to see is some skin,  right? Turns out, the film hasn’t got any. Like, not at all. Those  wanting to see Megan’s body (meaning everyone, and that being the only  reason why anyone would want to see the flick anyway) are gonna be  totally disappointed. There’s more of Megan in “Transformers”. You know  that pic where she’s  leaning over Bumblebee’s hood that made her famous? That could be  considered porn compared to “Jennifer’s Body”. I mean, they should’ve  given us at least some cleavage or something. But no.

The other thing is there’s no horror. No gore or any on-screen blood  splatter. I was surprised to see the great Greg Nicotero’s name on  the credits. He had, what, 5 minutes of work on “Jennifer’s body”? A  waste of talent and potential.

So let’s see? It’s a horror whose sole appeal was bloody gore and Megan,  and it has neither. Is it a complete waste of time? You may be  surprised, but no. While it didn’t fulfill my initial expectations it  was good in other areas where I didn’t see it coming. “Jennifer’s Body”,  believe it or not, has one of the better teen slasher screenplays I’ve  seen for quite some time. For one, it doesn’t take itself seriously.  It’s purposely filled with clichés, and offers a satirical view on the  teen pop culture. It makes fun of emos, indie rock bands, jocks, hoes,  etc. and has some genuinely funny dialogues that made me grin quite a  few times. Oh, and it’s completely cheesy.

I mean, listen to this: Jennifer and Needy are two girls attending  Devil’s Kettle high school. Needy is the geeky quiet one, Jennifer’s the  outspoken school queen and main ho – i.e. total opposites, which makes  it strange why they’re actually BFF’s! (XOXOXO) When the indie rock band  Low Shoulder has a gig at the local bar Jen’s the first to be there,  dragging Needy with her. By accident, the place burns down and the band  ends up kidnapping Jen. See, it’s tough for an indie rock band nowadays.  I mean, there’s a whole bunch of them and they’re all cute. That’s why  Low Shoulder are trying to get Satan to help them in their careers… by  sacrificing a local virgin. Trouble is Jennifer hasn’t been a virgin  since junior high so she becomes some kind of succubus feeding of horny  boys instead of... hm, staying dead.

Megan’s been heavily criticized for her lack of acting skills. I  wouldn’t know. I’ve only seen her in “Transformers” where all she needed  to do was look hot and not talk much. Check. Now, in “Jennifer’s Body”  she had to portray a teen ho, and look hot. Check. I don’t foresee any  Oscars in her future, but if she sticks to what she knows (i.e. looking  hot), who are we to complain, right?

Unlike most typical slashers that are just generic, this had potential  to be some pure trashy fun. It’s really a shame it failed at the basics –  if you don’t have material for a good film, show some tits and spray  lots of fake blood. “Jennifer’s Body” was a great idea and had good  material, but the final product is so PG it just ruins it for me. Still,  the good humor, and some really great scenes (from a directing  viewpoint) make it worth your time… sort of.

P.S. Lance Henriksen has an uncredited cameo!

Rating: 6/10

- review by Ventilation Shaft

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Recommendations:

Jennifer's Body

Transformers babe Megan Fox shedding all as the titular body? Juno writer Diablo Cody penning the script? A blend of horror and high school comedy that has 'cult classic' written all over it? How could Jennifer's Body possibly fail?

And yet fail it does, so much so that Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs managed to stomp all over its opening weekend, relegating Jennifer's Body to the #5 spot. What might have been a cult favorite instead turned into an old-fashioned flop, and there seems little chance of it picking up a late following now that it's finally available on DVD. So where did it all go wrong?

On the surface Jennifer's Body still looks like a hit in the making, albeit a particularly gory, blood-splattered hit. Megan Fox plays Jennifer Check, a typical American flag girl who wants nothing more than to hang out with some cute guys, and maybe sneak an occasional underage drink or two. She's beautiful, athletic, and about as deep as a pie dish.

Her best friend Anita 'Needy' Lesnicki (Mamma Mia's Amanda Seyfried), meanwhile, is the class geek, hiding behind thick spectacles and always clutching a book to her ample, but hidden, chest. It's hard to think of two girls more unalike than Jennifer and Anita, but somehow they make it work.

Until the fateful night when Jennifer gets possessed by a demon, that is.

The girls head to a local hangout to see a visiting band, Low Shoulder, who have decided to play a venue in their tiny town for reasons known only to themselves. After Jennifer practically throws herself at the band's feet, and somehow manages to convince them she's still a virgin, the guitar-playing visitors burn the bar down and abduct our heroine in the back of their van. Let this be a warning to teenage groupies everywhere.

It's once Jennifer returns to town, however, that the story truly starts. She suddenly has an insatiable appetite for human flesh, and before long the boys from their class (and, bizarrely, a one-armed J.K. Simmons) start turning up in pieces. Only Needy seems to see the truth, and it's up to her to save the town's men from her ravenous best friend.

Naturally Jennifer's Body is shot through with metaphors and morality tales, but there's no getting beyond the fact that this is essentially an old fashioned bodice ripper. There's plenty of blood, nudity, and screaming adolescents - it's like Hammer Horror never went out of business.

While the Hammer Horror movies often stayed aloft thanks to their sincerity and self-belief, however, Jennifer's Body is just too damned self-referential for its own good. Even as Fox's immaculate mouth tears shreds off another poor horny high school boy, you can't help seeing the knowing wink behind her ghastly makeup. What might have been a truly scary tale of possession instead becomes a rather unfunny comedy about adolescence.

Even that might have been bearable enough, but the ending is so cliched and obvious that most audiences will be baying for blood themselves long before the credits roll. It just serves to underscore the movie's failings - this is a film that has nothing new to say, but somehow believes that an ironic wink is enough to create a cult following.

Maybe Jennifer's Body isn't as irresistable as they thought.

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Booze Revooze: A Drinker’s Skewed Review of JENNIFER’S BODY

Amanda Seyfried is no slouch either:

While i’m at it, here are a couple shots of Diablo Cody:
Thingy 2) Toward the end, Jennifer and Needy swap super sizzling spittle, with tongue.

Drink: ½ shot

References to underage drinking in a bar called Melody Lane. It’s hard to fall for the whole ‘underage’ drinking thing with Megan Fox looking like she does. In the bar, she orders two drinks called 9/11, which come in twin soda glasses with layered red, white and blue liqueurs.

Later, in a state of shock, a gay boy band dude force feeds The Fox a whiskey on the rocks.

Rock & Roll: 3 Shots

Not enough here, but the little rock they have is good. Check out the song at the top of the page if you don’t believe me.

Here’s the Soundtrack:

1. Kiss With a Fist – Florence and The Machine
2. New Perspective – Panic! At The Disco
3. Teenagers – Hayley Williams
4. New In Town – Little Boots
5. Finishing School – Dashboard Confessional
6. Through The Trees – Low Shoulder
7. Time – Cute Is What We Aim For
8. I Can See Clearly – Screeching Weasel
9. Chew Me Up – Cobra Starship
10. Toxic Valentine – All Time Low
11. I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend – Black Kids
12. Death – White Lies
13. Celestial Crown – The Sword
14. Little Lover’s So Polite – Silversun Pickups
15. Ready For The Floor – Lissy Trullie

The Rock ‘n’ Roll attitude of the film was there, but as i said up there somewhere, the action was a little cliché so it’s hard to get worked up about how hard the movie isn’t.

Boring Technical Crap

Written by: Diablo Cody

Directed by: Karyn Kusama

Starring

Megan Fox – Jennifer

Amanda Seyfried – Anita ‘Needy’ Lesnicky

Bottom Line

Yeah, see it. But at a matinee or something when you don’t have to play full price.

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Al K Hall<br />
Functional Alcoholic Slurperson<br />
(No, REALLY. Google &amp;quot;Slurperson&amp;quot; if you don't believe me.)

Last updated: 2010-04-04 18:13:45 by user08

Jennifer's Body

Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried
Horror, 2009 (R Rated)

After a bar fire in a small town where nothing ever happens Needy (Seyfried) becomes suspicious of her best friend Jennifer (Fox) after she comes over bloody, battered, and acting very strangely. Soon after, the high school quarterback is found viciously murdered in the woods behind the football field. The town becomes the center of a media frenzy as the students mourn the lives of lost lives. Jennifer is the hottest girl in school and gets any guy she wants but suddenly her appetite for boys has grown stronger then ever. There is definitely something strange and deadly going on and Needy has to stop it before someone else turns up dead.

• The storyline of this movie is pretty weird but it makes for a really good movie.
• Megan Fox's hotness is played up and put on display in every shot. She is a great looking girl and was perfect for the role of seductress.
• Fox obviously hit the genetic gene pool jack pot with piercing blue eyes and dark hair. What must it be like to be that gorgeous?
• Amanda Seyfried plays the homely best friend role and although Fox is the hot one in the movie I really think Seyfried steals the show.

4 Stars

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Just Me

jennifer’s body

best.  movie.  ever.

and i’m only half joking.  it is really good.  i don’t understand why it’s doing so poorly at the box office.  it’s megan fox.  eating high school boys.  and making out with other girls.  you can have your dark knight, i’ll take megan fox brutally murdering and eating people then making out with girls.

call me sick, perverse.  whatever.  it’s a hella good time.

it’s written by diablo cody, who also wrote the screenplay for the film Juno.  and that same kind of witty dialog and under exaggeration, if that’s even a term that makes sense.  this movie is no Juno, don’t get me wrong.  and it drags in spots but when this thing gets clicking it is very enjoyable.

and yes, you even get a killer girl make out scene.

if anyone remembers drag me to hell, this is a film along the same vein  a teen horror/slasher flick with a brain and sense of humor.  this might be a big cult thing for megan fox.  as she’s been pretty much panned by everyone, everywhere.  i thought she was freaking awesome.

she delivers some of the best lines you’ll hear all year in a movie.  and she delivers the most outlandish shit with such casual demeanor it makes me smile inside.  almost as if i’d thought up that line myself.

i will be purchasing this film on dvd.  depending on the extra content, i may go as high as 15 bucks for a new dvd.

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Cal Reed

Jennifer's Body

There are two selling points to this movie:

1.) The writing talent of screenwriting celeb Diablo Cody.

2.) The "body" of the title, provided by screen babe Megan Fox.

So how's the writing? And how is Megan Fox?

Well, the writing's pretty good. The dialogue doesn't capture, or even attempt, the galloping speed and cleverness of Cody's breakthrough "Juno," but that's probably a good thing. You're not going to outdo Juno's wit, you're just going to remind us we're not watching Juno.

Besides, according to interviews, "Juno" isn't the kind of movie Cody would likely watch anyway. She likes fun and messy gorefests. So that's what she wrote.

Her script tracks the friendship between Amanda Seyfried's high school shy girl Needy Lesnicki and Fox's glam, cheerleading Jennifer. In a nice bit of compact pacing, Jennifer gets abducted by members of a travelling indie band and turned into a monstrous succubus within the first twenty minutes or so.

A succubus is, of course, a female demon. (What's the matter, you never played Dungeons & Dragons?) Jennifer still looks human, delectably so, but she needs to feed on the entrails of a high school boy every thirty days or so. If she doesn't, she weakens, not just physically but in the beauty department. Her skin goes blotchy, her hair loses its bounce, her eyes their shiny glow. She literally needs to consume boys in order to remain beautiful.

Aha!

Symbolism!

Kudos to Cody for making her point without lingering on it. The dramatic question takes precedence, and that question is: what is Needy going to do about the fact that her best friend is now a demonic serial killer preying on her classmates?

If you've seen "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," you know full well what she's going to do. She does what everyone now does when confronted with mythical creatures. First she hits the books. Then, armed with occult tomes, she confronts the beast. She does not succeed at first, but eventually we get to our climax and someone takes a sharp blade to the chest.

In the meantime there are some fun revelations and one sizzling hot lesbian sex scene. Woo hoo!

Diablo Cody deserves a ton of credit for avoiding a sophomore slump on her second screenwriting effort. The gal's got skillz, and she'll be fun to follow over the next few years. Here's hoping she continues to write original screenplays and does not content herself with taking big-time Hollywood money to rewrite bad scripts that studios should never have bought in the first place. You can disappear into artistic obscurity pretty fast that way. It's not worth it, Diablo.

As for Megan Fox, she looks very attractive throughout, as you would expect. Better news still, she does an okay job of acting. If she were committed to improving she could actually make a run at a respectable career. The fact she chose to work with a noted writer like Cody suggests this is possible -- though of course it may have been her agent's idea. The next few movies will tell the tale of Megan Fox's ambition.

This movie had a disappointing opening weekend, pulling in only six point eight million dollars. This has led to fingerpointing at the Megan Fox-heavy marketing campaign, but we're coming to the end of a long recent run of horror films. Maybe there's horror fatigue out there. Whatever the reason, this movie deserved better than the fifth-place finish it opened with.

SCORE:

How Accomplished: 70/100

How Much I Enjoyed: 70/100

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Jennifer's Body

/</gispan id="__end"/>/gi<span id="__end"><span>"Jennifer's Body" has a great talented writer in Diablo Cody, an ex stripper who won an Academy Award for writing the wonderful "Juno". It also has a hot new actress in Megan Fox but Fox and Cody can't get the job done in this one. This is a horror movie with Cody's pop culture references and witty quips that she uses in her writing. It is like the main character of Juno from that movie was transported to a horror movie but there is no fresh voice like Juno and no standout characters in this boring high school. I expected a sexy, over the top, gory and scary horror movie but this is too dull for that. Megan Fox isn't sexy enough and the movie surprisingly doesn't go for the jugular like Jennifer does. Yes there is a hot girl on girl kissing scene but it lasts for maybe three minutes. There is blood but why not go all out like Sam Raimi did for "Drag Me To Hell" earlier this year. Diablo Cody is very funny, cool and has a wild sense of humor so why isn't this more out there, bloodier, funnier and sexier? This is actually kind of tame and boring for a demonic and gory horror movie. The focus on the promotion for this movie has been Megan Fox and she is very beautiful and a lot of boys and men find her hot but she disappoints in this movie. If you viewed this movie and watched Fox for the first time you would wonder what all the fuss was about. Actually the other lead Amanda Seyfried is actually more beautiful and talented here playing the straight girl. Seyfried was glowing and beautiful and had a smile that lit up the screen in "Mama Mia" and she actually stole that movie from Meryl Streep. I find her the most interesting part of "Jennifer's Body" and now she has stolen two movies away from the leads. I think she may have a great career ahead of her. This movie is just a little roadblock for Seyfried and Cody on the way to better things.</span></span></span>

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Vincent Snavely

Last updated: 2010-02-14 23:22:28 by user04

Jennifer's Body (2009)

     After watching this failed attempt three things became clear: The only reason this movie was made is because of the success writer Diablo Cody had with the movie Juno; Cody’s success with Juno may quite possibly have been a fluke; and Megan Fox (the titular Jennifer) is a piece of ass who couldn’t act her way out of a speeding ticket. The only shining moment in this film is the performance from Amanda Seyfried, who plays Megan Fox’s best friend, Needy.
     Oh where to begin? How about the plot? Jenn and Needy go to shitty bar to see a new band called Low Shoulder. A fire breaks out during the concert and Jenn and Needy escape unharmed. The lead singer of the band Nikolai, played by Adam Brody, confronts the 2 in the parking lot while the fire rages on and people are running around behind them on fire. It seems Jenn is in shock so she gets into the band’s van, which has blacked-out windows, and leaves Needy all alone to find her way home. It seems Nikolai and his band mates are having trouble becoming famous. As Nikolai explains, “There’s a lot of competition out on the indie rock scene.” So what’s a poor, struggling indie band (who are sick of working in coffee shops) suppose to do? Hey, why not turn to Black Magic?? Yeah … Satan will help us out!! And unfortunately people this is exactly what the band does. THIS is the best plot Cody could come up with?? She apparently wrote this script the same year as she wrote Juno (in 2006). Which takes me to my first point; the ONLY reason this got made was because of her Oscar-winning Juno.
     So the band sacrifices Jenn, who they believe is a virgin, to Satan in order to become famous. But she kinda lied to them and hasn’t been a virgin since junior high. As she tells Needy, “I’m not even a virgin ‘back there,’” (as she juts out her butt). She then goes on to explain that after her first butt-sex experience she had to miss cheerleader practice and “sit on a bag of frozen peas all day.” Now keep in mind people, THIS is dialogue written by an Academy Award winning writer!! So because Jenn isn’t a virgin this allows a demon to possess her body (lucky friggin’ demon), forever making her hungry for human flesh. Yup. That’s the plot people; a plot written by an Academy Award winning writer (sorry I keep pointing that out, but I find it pretty amazing).
     And just in case this all sounds really “cool” and interesting, well I apologize because it’s not. At all. What we have is a ridiculously lame plot with really annoying dialogue. I never saw Juno but I think it’s safe to assume that Cody wrote way better dialogue in Juno than in this shitty flick. I felt like I was watching a ‘tweener show on Nickelodeon. Performances were actually pretty good all around. Seyfried does a fantastic job, her boyfriend, played by Johnny Simmons, is believable, and we even get the great J. K. Simmons here in the role of school teacher Mr. Wroblewski. He wears a crazy wig and sports a claw for an arm. It was a fun role.
     But, you must be wondering, what about Megan Fox? She does have the main role as the titular character? Ok. In a nutshell: Fox is not that great of an actress. She has the acting chops of someone on an episode of iCarly. Let’s face it; she got her big break in the Transformers flicks by bending over things and flashing her ass all over the place. I’m not complaining, I’m just saying!! But if you look at this flick, she actually had the right role. I know Fox has top billing, but clearly after watching this Amanda Seyfried is the true star. I didn’t time anything, but I would bet Seyfried even has more on-screen time than Fox. And she should. Seyfried does a fantastic job with her role. Fox’s role was to look sexy and kill guys. Seyfried’s role was the acting role that was the driving force for the entire movie. Seyfried easily out shines Fox and I for one think she is smoking hot. If not for Seyfried this flick would have been completely unwatchable.
     Back to the dialogue for a second. The main problem here is that this movie thinks very highly of itself. It thinks its way more clever than what it actually is. You can almost feel the movie nodding its head, arrogantly impressed with its own (shitty) dialogue. But the dialogue is very annoying and I doubt there are any high school kids around who actually talk that way. Big misfire with the dialogue Ms. Cody!! What’s more, the crappy plot and terrible dialogue create another problem. It makes this movie fail as both a horror movie and as a plot-driven thriller. There’s not enough of either to save this flick.
     And besides the uncredited cameo by Lance Henriksen, the ending falls flat on its face. I’m not sure if this was suppose to set the stage for a sequel (Needy’s Body maybe), but it doesn’t work and feels forced. This is a huge misfire that you can definitely skip. And to Diablo Cody; just consider yourself lucky you have the success you have with Juno. But if you keep writing shitty flicks like this, well that success will only last so long. Definitely skip this one people!!
My Summary:


Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars (the .5 is for the makeout scene between Fox and Seyfried. Thanks for that at least!!).
Gore: 2 out of 10 skulls
Zombie Mayhem: 0 out of 5 skulls

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Recommendations: From Beyond (1986), Class of Nuke 'Em High, Basket Case

I can't help it; I just hate movies that suck.

Movie Review: Jennifer’s Body (2009)

Talk about a letdown.

You have Diablo Cody, the creator of cult favourite Juno, which just won her the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (and also the award-winning TV show The United States of Tara).  You have Amanda Seyfried, the up-and-coming star of Mean Girls and Mamma Mia!.  You have director Karyn Kusama, who was at the helm for Æon Flux (I know), but also the critically acclaimed Girl Fight.  And of course, there’s Megan Fox, who is widely regarded as the most desirable woman on the freaking planet.
On paper, Jennifer’s Body looks like a sure winner.  But somehow, the film received a lukewarm reception and totally bombed out.  It will go straight to DVD in Australia early next year.

After seeing it, I can kinda understand why.

As per usual, I’m not revealing the any more of the plot than necessary.  Just know it is set in a high school and is a horror comedy about two teenage girls.  One good thing is that the previews are somewhat misleading and don’t give away too much.
In a way, I can see where the movie was coming from.  At its heart, Jennifer’s Body is a very dark black comedy which pays tribute to the old school horror movies (and has a certain 80s feel to it).  There are parts that are genuinely funny if you appreciate dark humour (I certainly do), and there are a couple of scenes which may give you a fright, or at least make you cringe in disgust.

However, watching it, I got the distinct feeling that Cody deliberately set out to make a ‘cult’ movie – and that just doesn’t work.  Movies are given the distinguished ‘cult’ status by the fans.  When you try too hard to make a film quirky and wacky, it just gets weird – but without the accompanying unintended laughs.  There were so many WTF moments in Jennifer’s Body, but they weren’t necessarily good WTF moments.  Don’t get me wrong, Cody is a skilled screenwriter who writes witty, crisp dialogue and creates great characters, but it feels all too polished and packaged.

It’s a difficult film to rate because it has some great elements to it.  It’s sexy, hip and stylish and knows how to manipulate the audience, especially teenage boys (whom they probably thought would flock to see Fox and Seyfried get it on).  The performances are solid, especially Seyfried, who manages to pull off an ‘average’ teenage girl convincingly.  And Megan Fox surprised me with her acting ability.  Yes, she was playing a skanky, bitchy slut of a girl so it might not have been a stretch for her (think Eminem in 8 Mile), but she was actually very good.

On the other hand, Jennifer’s Body just wasn’t that enjoyable.  There are solid moments but it’s not particularly scary nor particularly funny.  It was a little all over the place (though this was probably intentional).  It’s unfortunate because I think they had something going here with the premise and the concept, but the pieces just didn’t fit together for some reason.

2.5 stars out of 5!

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PJM

Last updated: 2010-01-05 08:41:38 by user04

Jennifer's Body

Let’s face it, the on;y reason anyone would even think about watching this is  to see Megan Fox. I must say that I fell into that trap, but at the same time I  was curious about the film, as well.
I’m sure you’ve all read these reports on hote Megan fox cannot act.  Jennifer’s Body was meant to erase that thought and prove she’s a  credible actress. Good though, but t didn’t happen. Megan Fox comes off as  robotic and desperate. She appears to be trying too hard to get the audience to  care for her, as well as drum up some sympathy, but to no avail.
They say this is supposed to be a horror-comedy, but I didn’t find any humor  in the film. As a matter of fact, it seemed as if they were trying too hard to  be hip, but accomplished nothing but an epic fail.
The horror aspects of this flick do lean toward the plus side, but they don’t  deliver on all cylinders. I belive this has to do with the strange mixed genre,  but I just felt like they could have done so much better with it, especially  since there was plenty to work with.
I didn’t quite get how/why Jennifer became a succubus. I know she explains it  and all, but I think I missed something. That’s not a knock against that part of  the film, as much as it is something that I missed.
Amanda Seyfried really is the perfect choice as the frumpy best-friend Needy.  Some people may say that she was too hot to have this role. I’m nto one of them.  While she is attractive in her own Susuan Sarandon wannabe way, but compared  to Megan Fox, she did look homely, especially in that weird 80s inspired formal  dress.
The story isn’t that bad, but is ruined by the bad acting of the cast. No one  saves this film from its downfall into suckage, and that is such a shame because  it starts out with such promise.
Critics ripped this thing a new one, and rightfully so. It just isn’t a good  film. It tries too hard to be a hip and be a cult hit. It remains to be seen if  it earns the latter. I try to find the good in every flick, and this film does  have a few redeeming qualities, but in the end, I can’t bring myself to  recommend this to anyone, except those that are juts die hard Megan Fox fan.  Still, I suppose if you must watch this, you must.
2 1/2 out of 5 stars
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Jennifer's Body

Megan Fox in a main role of an evil demon – when this happens, I obviously can’t think straight. I am one of the people, who adores Megan Fox, watches everything she is in, having secretly fantasies about her, hating the person Brian Austin Green for dating her (but I like him as an actor). I am one of the people who thinks she is living sex and far beyond. Am I a cliché now? Well, not when I can say that most of the projects with Megan Fox are mostly average. Transformers is still story trash (the second movie was boring), she wasn’t that funny in the 35th season opener of the NBC comedy Saturday Night Live, and even Jennifer’s Body is not really a milestone in the history of non-serious horror comedies. But Jennifer’s Body is one thing: a crappy and funny movie from the vomit scene until the end.
Cheerleader Jennifer (Megan Fox) and dorky geek Needy (Amanda Seyfried) are BFFs for years and inseparable, though they have nothing in common. After a fire in a local bar, where some high school students lost their lives, Jennifer disappears with a rock band (in which Adam Brody is the lead singer) and comes back to Needy with blood all over her body. This is the beginning of something really bloody and deathly: Jennifer mysteriously gains a lot of appetite for human blood in male high school students. As Needy finds out that Jennifer is possessed by a demon, she has to find a way to stop her friend’s bloodthirsty rampage before it reaches her own boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons). One thing is for sure and everybody should know it before watching: Jennifer’s Body doesn’t take itself seriously and is just a vehicle for a hot cheerleader being possessed, killing boys, still looking sexy and having a light lesbian scene between Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox, so men’s hearts are pounding until their chests explode. The movie isn’t good for anything else. It seems that 80 per cent of the movie goers had completely different expectations, especially with Diablo Cody being responsible for the screenplay, who won an Academy Award for Juno two years back. And the only result of having different expectations is that they find Jennifer’s Body bad. But it isn’t. Seriously. And I don’t say that, because I have *insert a word* fantasies about Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried together in the same bed.
The dialogs are funny as hell. Some examples? Jennifer about Needy’s breasts: “These are like smart bombs, you point them in the right direction and shit gets real.” Jennifer after being stabbed by Needy and bleeding out of the wound hole: “Got a tampon?” And, especially, after being stabbed by Needy: “Oww, my tit.” To which Needy responds: “No, your heart.” There are more example and I was laughing hilariously in most of the scenes – not only because of the funny dialogs, but some scenes were so ridiculous that it must have been on purpose to do them that shitty. But there lies the biggest problem of the movie: It doesn’t know if it wants to be a comical horror movie, a spoof of all the satanic rituals gone wrong, a funny movie with Megan Fox in it, or was it just a rip-off of Cruel Intentions (and I am only taking about the lesbian kiss scene)? Somehow the movie wants to be all of it, and this is what doesn’t let the movie work properly. At least the movie isn’t trying to be sophisticated or complex and is instead supposed to be a fun movie for the side; not important for the studio to make money with (the production only cost 16 million Dollar), not a breakthrough for all of the actors, and all in all a supposed-to-be fun project with no intentions to become a cult hit.
The actors are clearly having fun in their roles. Megan Fox plays her sex card and shows once again her erotic side. She is the star of the movie, but her opposite part played by Amanda Seyfried holds her own. While Fox’s Jennifer doesn’t hide her sexual side and wants to have everything she can get (including the buddy-like Adam Brody, who might be a great guy to hang out with, when he is not about to sacrifice you for a demonic ritual), Seyfried’s Needy hides her beauty behind her gawky side and shows that she has nothing in common with Jennifer. Megan Fox took charge of her character and played with it, her acting is creative, and she even becomes a wreck when she has to be, and wanders completely outside of her sexy side. Jennifer’s friendship with Needy is completely believable, and every shitty small town somewhere in the middle of the United States’ nowhere. And Amanda Seyfried shows again that she is underrated in Hollywood and definitely can act. And Diablo Cody didn’t overwrite Needy’s goofy side, which lets everybody believe that she is not the one in high school, who doesn’t talk to people and vice versa, because she is not the ugly one in here. Johnny Simmons gives a sweet boyfriend for Seyfried, only his death scene was way too wound up. I really had to laugh at its incredibly stupid scene, which looks like this wasn’t on purpose. This scene was the low-point of the movie.
Adam Brody had, like I said already, fun in his role. He stabs Jennifer like… a hundred times, with a smile on his face, and before the ritual he picks out the words for the ritual, which he found easily on the internet – hilarious.
Kyle Gallner makes a good stand as well, getting eaten by Jennifer, and shows like Seyfried, that he is worthy to look for in future projects.
The rest of the movie is typical basic: Jennifer’s Body is sexy, but doesn’t show much sex; Megan Fox eats people, but there isn’t much blood. Disgusting scenes are barely in the movie, at the utmost the vomiting scene might me the most disturbing scene (but this was too funny for me to be disturbing – I was mentally screaming WTF and had big eyes). Karyn Kusama’s movie is not too long, and not too short, and after her miserable Æon Flux she shows that she actually can direct a movie.
And when you don’t see the real purpose of the movie when you read the outlined plot (loser indie band tries to get fame and fortune by sacrificing a virgin to the devil, only their virgin isn’t one and transforms into a flesh eating demon) and you still expecting a clever (or trashy) horror movie, then you don’t know jack.
Jennifer’s Body is no masterpiece, but fun all the way. And I was entertained.
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Papa K's Take On Jennifer's Body

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Total Running Time: 102 Minutes
Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Bad Acting

For those of you who don’t know… I’m a self-professed, shallow male who is a big fan of Megan Fox’s “body” of work.  Well… you can now make that “was a big fan”… in more ways than one.

The only reason I had any desire to see this movie (actually I bought it) yesterday was because it had Megan Fox in it.  If it had starred anyone else I might have given it a look at the $5 movie bin at Wal-Mart a year or so from now… but that’s it.

While I can’t say this is the first time I have bought a movie I haven’t seen yet and not liked it… I can say that it’s probably the most disappointed I’ve been in a long time at the outcome of the finished product.
Up until I watched this movie, I had only seen Fox in the two Transformers movies of which didn’t really require much acting… just mostly running in slow motion, looking terrified, screaming, standing there looking hot and the occasional line like “RUN SAM” or “LOOK OUT SAM” or “LET’S GET OUT OF HERE!”
My advice to her would be to stick with these kinds of roles.

In Jennifer’s Body she is the lead.  She is the one who drives the movie.  She is the one who all the 16 year old high school kids (who the movie was marketed to) couldn’t come to the movie theatre and see because the movie is rated “R”.  She is the one who rocketed the movie off the cliff and slammed it into a neighboring mountain… killing it instantly.

In the movie, Megan plays a high school cheerleader named Jennifer (following me so far?) who is quite simply a total slut… pardon the expression… but it is true.  After a misunderstanding she winds up as the unwilling participant in a tainted ritualistic sacrifice leaving her body to be inhabited by a demon.  A demon which can only survive off the FLESH OF HORNY TEENAGE BOYS!!
 
Who comes up with this stuff?!

Well… her name is Diablo Cody and you might remember that name because she won an Academy Award for her screenplay: Juno.  Juno was a movie about teenage pregnancy, and while it might have had its Hollywood undertones, I thought it had its fair share of warm moments.  It also was an excellent vehicle for Ellen Page to showcase her fantastic acting ability and deliver Cody’s quirky script writing.


Diablo Cody’s better, more sufficient movie for her writing style…

Fox doesn’t deliver the same ability to deliver quirky lines or act and Cody’s quirky lines don’t work in a horror movie.

I am very sad to report that I had really hoped to be surprised by Fox’s acting ability so she’d prove to me that she was actually a good actress and could make it in Hollywood!  I wanted to believe that she hadn’t gotten to where she is because she looks so good.

I was wrong and I’m afraid people are going to figure out that she’s just another pretty face destined to eventually get her own reality dating show because no one wants her to bring their film down into the abyss of misfit movies.

I could go on about the unnecessary language, the obvious fact that Megan Fox could not pass as a teenager anymore and Cody’s obvious disenchantment with Christianity… but I won’t.  Instead I wanted to mention that in this movie Fox looks emaciated!  I would think that if her character is eating teenage boys she could have had a little more curves!?  Her best stick figure interpretation in this movie is only going to further the insecurity of impressionable girls!  While I don’t advocate obesity… I don’t advocate looking like you’re hung off a coat rack either.

Megan Fox in Jennifer’s Body

I still consider Megan Fox very pretty… but she’s been knocked back a few notches.  If I ever ran into her at Olive Garden… I might only spill part of my Chicken Con Broccoli… not all of it.

All in all… I give it two out of five nasty bearded guys…
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Last updated: 2010-02-08 21:14:56 by papak